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was a 26-episode series that bowed in 1984 on ITV in the U.K. as Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends. Allcroft picked Ringo Starr to serve as Mr. Conductor, the gentle show’s first narrator ...

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Britt Allcroft, creator of the beloved Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends children's TV series, has died. The British-born producer died last week in Santa Monica at 81. Thomas started out as a ...

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Britt Allcroft, the visionary creator of the beloved children’s series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends ... which featured intricate model trains and narration by notable figures like Ringo Starr and ...

The series, which featured narration by Beatles drummer Ringo Starr and stand-up comedian George Carlin, was renamed to “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends” and crossed the Atlantic in 1989 to ...

The premiere episode featured narration from The Beatles drummer Ringo Starr. The series — later renamed "Thomas & Friends" — would go on to become a global sensation and run for an incredible ...

Britt Allcroft, the producer behind the beloved Thomas the Tank Engine TV series Thomas And Friends, has died. Brannon Carty, a filmmaker who made the documentary An Unlikely Fandom: The Impact of ...

Britt Allcroft, the producer who adapted Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends ... British TV in 1984 as a children’s show narrated by Ringo Starr. The series ran for 24 seasons through 2021, before ...

She discovered the character in a series of 1940s children’s books and thought Ringo Starr would make a great Mr. Conductor on television.

Britt Allcroft, the creator of the beloved children’s series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, has died aged 81. In the 1970s, the TV producer secured the rights to adapt the Reverend Wilbert ...